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Devry - Term Nine

My last and final semester ever at DeVry! So how as it? A lot worse than I thought it would be.

More than likely, I made this semester a lot harder than it was due to the fact that I was just plain burnt out. I mean, after eight straight semesters of schools with miniscule breaks, working retail at Walgreens, and pulling off above average grades, stuff ends up getting to you. I grew irritable, tired, exhausted… BURNT! Plus, having the the realization that four months from now I was gonna be tossed in the lion’s pit doesn’t really give an extra boost of motivation. Regardless, I went into this semester knowing it was my last and not knowing what to do from here on out.

My Advanced Communications Class was relatively straight forward. The professor of that class bored the crap out of me, so naturally I had trouble staying awake in that class. The first test I totally bombed. I got like a 67%. I knew I wasn’t going to get an A from then on out. Now was the realization that I could actually get a C in the class. There was no way in hell I was going to let myself get a C on my very last semester at DeVry. I HAD to do better on my next test. After some hardcore studying I got an 83% on the next test. Better, but I was still going to get a C unless I did very well on the next test. So for the last and final test, I studied and studied and studied and studied. I ended up getting an astonishing 98% on the last test, solidifying my B for the course.

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Devry - Term Eight

If it wasn’t for the senior project, I think this term would’ve been a piece of cake. However, because of the senior project, it wasn’t! This term was the hardest for me academically due to the fact that I really didn’t have my priorities straight.

Every week our senior project team would meet and go over what was needed in order to get done on time. Even though we started early, we still came under a time crunch. Our ability to work under pressure paid off, but our project still didn’t work exactly as planned.

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Devry - Term Seven

I completed this semester with great difficulty. I mean, I got three B’s! Ok.. ok.. I’m just kidding. But it still sucks to get B’s. Not that I didn’t deserve them though. I really, really slacked it this semester. I waited until the last minute to practically do everything. We had almost all semester to do our project plan, and we waited until two weeks before it was due to even start the thing. But it turned out nicely, and the only reason I got a B in the project management class was because I did really bad on a test.

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Devry - Term Six

A lot of Devry students will tell you that the fourth semester is the hardest. Or maybe they’ll tell you the fifth semester is the hardest. I just have the feeling that the semesters get harder and harder and harder until you graduate. The sixth semester has been the hardest one academically for me. Maybe that’s because I’ve lost my willpower… motivation maybe? This term I felt there was no need to stress myself out just over school.

I had some hard classes this semester. College physics sucked. The damn professor couldn’t make up his mind how he wanted to teach his class. We had four very different testing formats, which kinda screwed with my mind in that class. I ended up getting an A out of it, but that’s only cause I’m good at that kind of stuff. ASP was hard to grasp because I failed to see an application for it. Communications class was the class I struggled in. I couldn’t get a handle on the guy’s testing. I got an A on his homework and quizzes, but couldn’t really get used to the way he tested. Speech requires another paragraph, so bare with me.

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Devry - Term Five

A lot of weird things happened this semester to me. The most memorable moment was when I was walking home and almost got robbed. Another memorable event was going home for Christmas and seeing my dad, and going to the Sum 41 concert with my friends.

I kinda shrugged off the “almost getting robbed” notion. Those guys were punks so I’m not gonna really get paranoid over it. It was kinda lucky how we got to the Sum 41 concert. My friend’s car broke down, so we had to take the bus. The bus didn’t take us all the way to Club Rio(which is where it was at). We ended up about five miles away from the club. We decided to eat at Burger King first before we tried to head out. I tried to go outside and call a cab. I never got through. That’s when my friends all walked outside. We saw a cab in the neighboring parking lot. We ran for it, but the guy said he wouldn’t take all five of us (my roommate, me, my friend Eric, my friend Ernie and his girlfriend). Just as that dude was rejecting us, another guy pulled up in his car and asked us where Club Rio was at. We said yeah… that’s where we’re trying to go. He said hop in, and we crammed in his backseat. To sum it up, the concert was awesome!

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Devry - Term Four

I have three words to summarize this term: This term sucked!

At first, this term started off kinda easy. I had all these high hopes. I thought I would get a lot more done than I actually did.

Gone are the days of scholarship contests, essay contests, and free time. The start of this term gave me a bunch of free time. I wrote a lot of poems and obligated myself to things I couldn’t handle. A lot seems to have changed in four months. It seems like people I have talked to forever are slowly dissipating in my life. Girls I thought I probably had a chance with are going about their seperate ways. I guess you only can delay the inevitable. My bro is into it with my mom. I serisously considered joining the army. My dad got laid off and found a new job. I went to a Blink concert!

All this seemed to weigh in on the end. The teachers I thought I would like, I hated. I found new crushes. I’m finally learning the true meaning of, “All the good ones are taken.”

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Devry, Term Three

Clouds rolled in, bringing forth rain,
The ocean roared — The tidal wave came.
“Sit in your chair!” I’m not prepared for this!

I thought this was easy, I thought this was bliss!
Pile on the homework, the teachers conspired,
And my programming teacher, that guy should be fired.
Money for next term, I don’t see in sight,
As financial aid people try to set me up right.
My future unknown, I try not to worry,
And the stress in my head, I push down and bury.
Shrinking class, why do I prevail?
Why do I succeed when others fail?
I am so glad that this term is done,
Why have I lost, when I know I have won?

Devry Term 2

Quicksand - I feel,
In prayer, I kneel,
Good grades, am I blessed?
“Don’t worry - seek rest.”
Hard times, good fights,
Go left, then they say right,
Simple eyes, harsh stares,
“Will he make it?” - Who cares?
Sinking friends - I pull up,
I tug hard, but is it enough?
Long nights, no sleep,
Study hard, alarm beeps,
Wake up, bus it there,
A day off, forever rare,
Burning out, thinning class,
Harder now, broken glass,
Mirror mirror, what do you see?
“I see you, in term three.”

Devry, I Survived the First Term.

Below is a rant of why most college students should wake up.
Advisory: Do not read this if you are lazy.

College?
This is college? Tons of homework - tests - school?
Yes, THIS is college.
We pay money for this college.
Why do you treat it like high school?
Why are you cutting class?
Doing homework the day it’s due?
Why are you not taking this seriously?
This is your future, not mine.
So why do I care?

I don’t.

Who’s going, who’s staying?
We can tell, can’t you?
Who’s we?
The people who are staying.
This is college whether you realize it or not.
Rule 1 - Show up.
Rule 2 - Do your homework.
Rule 3 - Study for tests.
Rule 4 - Stay off crack.
Don’t find out the hard way.
This isn’t for you?
Fine, go work at McDonalds!
I’m sure you’ll be happy there.
See you next term - or not.